# Is Lady Gaga really worth a million dollars a show?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-lady-gaga-really-worth-a-million-dollars-a-show/809458>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 24, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-lady-gaga-really-worth-a-million-dollars-a-show/809458 "2018-02-24T07:26:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-lady-gaga-really-worth-a-million-dollars-a-show/809458/61 "2018-02-27T16:52:58Z")

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Link to earlier Gaga thread I referenced above: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=819088](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=819088)

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**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-lady-gaga-really-worth-a-million-dollars-a-show/809458/62 "2018-02-27T17:45:11Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> FWIW, IMO these residencies are going to become more and more of a thing here in Las Vegas. They are a huge win for the casinos that book them and artists love them.

More and more, the hotels on the Vegas Strip are depending on the shows (and clubs, and pools - well, what they charge men to get into the pools, anyway - and, to a lesser extent, the high-end and “name” restaurants - yes, you too can have Beef Wellington with Scallops and Risotto at Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen restaurant…but seriously, Fieri? $20 for a lowbrow burger and fries?), and less on the casinos, to make their money, as more and more high rollers notice the game changes on the Strip (a blackjack game where blackjack pays 3-2 instead of 6-5 is very hard to find on the Strip; the casinos are targeting the people who show up for the other things and think they know how to “count cards” well enough to beat a 6-5 game, which is pretty much impossible, but they saw them do it on _The Simpsons_ so it must be true).

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-lady-gaga-really-worth-a-million-dollars-a-show/809458/63 "2018-02-27T20:19:16Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> You’re the best Elendil’s Heir _I’ve_ ever met; you got that. 😃

Well, OK, thanks. That’ll be $5, please.

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